GREAT TRAIN ROBBER BRUCE REYNOLDS DIED

Bruce Reynolds was the organiser of the 15 man gang going into history as the Great Train Robbers.   His gang robbed the mail train from Glasgow to London in the early hours of August 8, 1963.  Even the gang didn’t know there was £2.6million on the train. They did know there was money on the train being transported down to London but this amount was enormous in 1960s when the average wage was £10-£15 per week.

When the driver Jack Mills stopped the train in Ledburn, Bucks one of the gang coshed him and he died soon after a few years.  This was all a very shocking act and the public were up in arms.

Reynolds fled with his family to Mexico but when the money run out he had to return and face his jail sentence. Later on he was paroled. He died in his sleep at the age of 81.

Ronald Biggs another Great Train Robber was jailed but escaped and went to Brazil. While he was living there he always sent pictures where he made fun of the police. In those days the police had no guns and kept confronting criminals with bare hands because of their courage even the underworld respected them.  If there was a policeman badly attacked or even killed the criminals sprang them.  Therefore it is twice as shameful for Ronald Biggs to make fun of them.  However, the same story as Reynolds when his money ran out he came crawling back and England was good enough to spend the money on his jail sentence and later on on benefits and housing. While he was in Brazil he had a son who came to England with him. His son campaigned for years to free him because he was so ill and frail. Eventual he achieved it undeservedly so. At the funeral of Bruce Reynolds, Ronald Biggs was not too frail to stick two fingers up. So much for gratitude which proves he did not deserve parole.

Another gangster Freddie Foreman, his son actor Jamie Forman and a villain from South London Dave Courtney were amongst the 300 mourners at St Bartholomew the Great Church at West Smithfield, East London, for an hour long service.

AFTERMATH OF EASTLEIGH BY-ELECTION

Eastleigh in Hampshire was quite a stronghold of the Conservative party and therefore ending up on third place was quite shocking and should ring all the alarm bells.

However, according to the Daily Telegraph David Cameron gave an admirable clear statement of his belief.  Accordingly he will still keep the same politics as before.  In his speech he also stated that he believes the Tories have the right policies although it resulted in a disappointing result in the Eastleigh by-election.

The Daily Telegraph is of the opinion that David Cameron’s boldness is a reassurance of his leadership.  Beside of a number of other statements which were more than contradicting he also said that he was very disappointed about the slow recovery of the economy. Needless to mention he also blames Labour. However, Labour handed over the economy with a 2.5 per cent GDP which vanished within three months. He also mentioned that the disastrous result of the Eastleigh by-election was due to disappointing slow recovery of the economy. To some extent he is right but he ignores the real reason caused by the constant cuts ant austerity.

Even the Daily Telegraph which is more on the side of the Tories admits that the country needs more jobs and improved income if the economy to recover. This idea has been on the table since the 2010 but instead of implementing the Tories cuts jobs, bringing down minimum wages, letting food -, petrol- and energy prices rise. 

The Daily Telegraph point out to tackle the looming energy crisis.  This is a very good point.  Rumours have it that the big energy suppliers planning another price rise and furthermore they supposed to have fix the prices which is totally against the law.  Again the coalition is ignoring it and does nothing about it. David Cameron had been criticised many a time about not dealing with the energy suppliers’ prices or suspected price fixing.

Of course, he would not pressure them to drop the tariffs because it would reduce the profit which would reduce the dividends. Sooner or later people have to cut down on using gas and electricity and start using oil heaters which admits fumes and can cause house fires.

The Daily Telegraph suggested starting rebuilding the Tories with social function in their local areas. It is a good idea but would it not be too late after the way they treat the public cutting down on everything and anything and increasing their salaries by £25,000. They are all multi-millionaires and did not need it.

There is ATOS being paid £100,000 for making disable people go back to work and at the same time closing all factories which mainly employed disabled people.  Atos was told to stop seven out of eight Disability Benefits. Not only that but these people now have to use legal aid to fight for their disability Benefits which cost the country even more.

Tories cut pensions and plan to stop the free bus pass, winter heating payment, free TV licence for over 75 and pension credit. This hurts a group at their worst time of their life and not to mention it was this generation who fought bitterly and sacrificed the most. They should have their last few years without worries. Their men in the trenches up to their neck in filth, lice, flees and excrement. The women working munitions factories with hardly any protection from the chemicals and their skin, jaws and eyesights effected.  At home they raised their family with hardly a penny.  Their children were evacuated and they missed them never saw them grow-up.  Yet, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne tread them like dirt.

David Cameron and his friends never knew a day of hardship and if it weren’t for this generation his world would have looked different. He ignores that and forgets it.

These are just two examples where the Tories just rough shot but are many more such as children benefit, family credit, council tax, and many more.  Don’t they realise that all these people who have affected by it are voters.  You can push people to a certain extent but now poverty is spreading again and there are over 280 food banks established across Britain to help families and prevent starvation.  Also pawnbrokers are establishing themselves again.  All this should not happen, not in the 21^st century especially when the MPs giving themselves a £25,000 rise in salary.

This is the root of the disastrous outcome for the Tories in Eastleigh and it wouldn’t be surprising if it happen in the next council election in May 2013.

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CREATOR OF THUNDERBIRDS GERRY ANDERSON - RIP

UPDATE:  16 February 2013 -- It is amazing the great demand of Thunderbird and therefore it has been decided to make a new series but with cartoons.  Gerry Anderson left such a legacy and so timeless.

Thunderbirds ware a wonderful TV serial for children and even grown up were fascinated. It was the creation of Gerry Anderson. He also was part of TV hits Captain Scarlet, Stingray and Joe 90. He gave children a wonderful time with modern, technical ideas but still something to dream about it and a lot to imagination.

Sadly Gerry Anderson died but they certainly honoured him for his legacy he left behind. At his cremation a full seized replica of Lady Penelope’s Rolls Royce was driven to his funeral. The FAB1 stopped outside the crematorium in Reading, Berks and the funeral was attended by 300 people. They heard tributes to Gerry about his wonderful creations.

The flowers were arranged in the shape of transport Thunderbird 2 and placed on top of his coffin. The marionettes from these TV series were also on display.

Gerry died at the age of 83 in December 2012 and his son Jamie added to the great tribute of his dad’s life that he left a phenomenal legacy behind.

Well, Gerry Anderson may you rest in peace but all your fans of these TV series will never forget these wonderful and spellbinding experience watching Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray. The children certainly were clued to the TV.

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It must have been such a satisfactory life to look back and realised to have given so much pleasure to young and old. Even the mothers stopped working and watch these fascination TV series. He certainly was given a great tribute at his funeral and he deserved it. 

WEATHER DISASTERS SINCE 1800

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You will not believe what I am going to tell you about the weather. Talking about Global Warming and Pollution which supposes to have an effect on the weather but when we look back and at this list it makes you wonder. I found all these weather information in the newspaper and they are official weather reports.

1800 The largest hailstones ever recorded in Britain fell in Buckinghamshire. It measured a monstrous 90 mm (3.5 cm) in diameter.

1843 August 9, tornadoes, thunderstorms and hailstones 25 mm (1 in) in dia. smashed glass, flattened crops and settled in drifts of 1.5 meter (5 ft) deep.

1846 August - hailstones smashed 7000 panes of glass in the House of Parliament and destroyed the glass arcade in London's Regent St.

1879 August 2nd and 3rd, hailstones the size of teacups fell in London.

1893 August 10th, a massive 31 mm (1.25 in) of rain was reported to have fallen in just five minutes in Preston - massive floods. The manhole covers were forced 1.8 m (6 ft) into the air.

Are you still sitting on your chair? Hold on there is more.

1906 August 2nd, tornado and thunderstorms killed 2 people in Guildford and hailstones 13 mm (5 in) and piled up 31 cm (1 ft) high, were recorded in north Bedfordshire.

1912 August - wettest month on record, widespread gales, temperatures around 12 c (54F)

London had only one day with 21, Birmingham and Manchester 19 c and Aberdeen had frost of - 3.8 c

It was also the month of the great Norfolk flood, 6 in 12 hours. Norwich was cut off for two days. More then 40 bridges were destroyed; flood was 4.5 m (15 ft) deep. Rain fell non-stop for more than 30 hours.

Fens stayed under water for the followed winter.

Yarmouth had rain of 94 mm (3.7 in) in 24 hours.

The damage of the torrential rain on the cereal crops was catastrophic. Earlier in July the crops looked very promising but were ruined by heavy and continuous rainfall. On exposed ground the crop was beaten to the ground by widespread gales.

Part of the railway between Bourne and Seaford in Lincolnshire were submerged and water was flowing over with such a force that the ballast was washed away.

In Nottingham the water rose 18 in. Everywhere the corn crops and potatoes were destroyed.

1917 August was the second wettest of the last century. Canterbury had 53 hours if rainfall.

1931 August 8th, Boston, Lincolnshire, had 155 mm (6 in) in the morning with 100 mm (4 in) of it falling in just two hours.

1934 August 30, the overnight temperature in Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire dropped below freezing.

1935 August 23, Croydon Airport had 5.1 mm (2 in) of rain in just one minute.

1952 August - devastating flood in Lynmouth, North Devon after 21 hours of heavy rain stayed in people's memory. Then after another downpour for much of the first two weeks, the rain began again about noon on August 15 and continued for most of the day over greater part of Devon with seven-hours of intense rain it was devastating. In 22 hours fell 225 mm (9 in) of rain on Exmore.

The flood came at night with a sudden surge of water and there was a loss of 34 lives and 93 buildings destroyed. 28 bridges swept away. The water even moved large rocks.

Apart from 1952 disastrous year there were no Atom bombs before that, pollution or Global warming. How can the scientist explain this terrible weather? It'll be hard but have a try, boys.

SUMMARY:  The weather just does what it wants but I do agree that we had to cut down the waste and on pollution as much as possible and to a certain extent it has an impact However, it does not justify the excuse of non-existing Global warming to ruin the English country side with wind farms which do not produce the electricity which the politician claim. It only adds to our electricity by all this false claim of Global warming.

PLEASE READ – IPCC GLOBAL WARMING A FAKE

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IPCC ADMITTED GLOBAL WARMING A FAKE

UPDATE:  13 January 2013 – Yet it is amazing that the IPCC is still in existence and using taxpayers’ money at a time of austerity. Any private company issuing false data would be closed down and find heavily. So why wasn’t the IPCC closed down?

The head of IPCC Rajandra Pachauri was a Railway engineer. How did he qualify for this top post and received money to which he had no right to? He was never challenged to return it.  W H Y?

At last they admitted it that they got it wrong. The world's leading climate change body IPCC had been forced to owe up to it they got the figures of the global warming wrong. It was officially stated by a senior member of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel.

The statement that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 was based on 'speculation' and not on facts. The panel's vice chairman Dr Jean-Pascal van Ypersele stated that a review would be launched.

There were doubts that the global warming was man-made and not a natural cycle.  In November a leaked email from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit stated that scientists were changing the figures to show that the climate change was a cause by humans.

The scandal raised the suspicion that scientists' interests are to secure more funding for research. The head of IPCC, Rajandra Pachauri, used the claims to get a fund of taxpayer-funded grants of hundreds of thousands of Dollars. The IPCC was set by the UN to make sure that world leaders had the possible scientific advice on climate change. It produced a report stated it was based on the latest research.

Scientists and glaciologists disputed this statement and even went that far to suggest the IPCC misread an earlier study.  In that study it is assumed the disappearance could be 2350. It was discovered that the Indian scientist Syed Hasnain made this statement in an interview in 1999 with New Scientist magazine.

IPCC also used the global warming it justify the natural disasters and moved it into political and public debates. In Copenhagen it was one of the topics in the climate summit. This brought a demand from the third world of 62billion compensation reasoning that the developed world brought this about.

The statement was never investigated by the World Wildlife Fund and IPCC copied it in its 2007 assessment. Apparently, a scientist warned the figure was wrong before it was published.

In 2006 a paper was written by a disaster impact expert. The IPCC published this report in 2008 without being scientifically scrutinised. Afterwards a warning was given that there is insufficient evidence in the claim. Yet the IPCC did not clarify it before the Copenhagen summit.

It was discovered that the former railway engineer Dr Pachauri, also a chairman of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, received the biggest part of a 2.5million EU research grant. This means taxpayers funding research into glaciers were established as a bogus.

Dr Pachauri under all this pressure had to admit that there was no evidence to support his claim and yet he applied for a grant for his institute. One application got him a grant of £310,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Dr Pachauri defying calls for his resignation and denies wrong-doing, started slowly to admit that if the global warming exists at all it will take centuries.

The other grant of £2.5million was for a research of the effect on India if the glaciers have melted. It was EU's top project and was launched. The EU grant given to various research institutions, Britain’s Met Office and The Energy and Resources Institute which received the major but unspecified share.

Mr George Kaser of the University of Innsbruck in Austria said that all these statements about global warming are so wrong that it is not even worth to discuss them. That is a clever way to get out of the situation.

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40 YEARS AGO EDWARD HEATH JOINED ECC

Prime Minister Edward Heath took Britain into the European Economic Community in January 1973. It was the biggest sell out of a country. Common  Market or European Economic Community as it was called at that time was not meant to stay that way but grow into an all power mad European Union.

Looking back now it shows that Brussels was working all the time towards it. The public at that time was not aware of it that they will wake up one day to find themselves ruled by Brussels. Today Brussels is still pushing even harder towards a United Europe meaning that Britain will end up as a province.

Edward Heath treated the public with contempt. He was a very cold and aloof man. In his televised broadcast in January 1973 announcing the membership of Britain in the EEC he pointed out that some people fear Britain should loose its independence and sovereignty but assured the public that that would never happen.

According to the records Mr Heath knew that the EEC was just the beginning and would develop into a European State.  Already in 1970 when Heath applied to join the EEC the Foreign Office warned him that Brussels wanted it developed into a political union. This included all the national economic management would be handed over to federal authorities. Heath knew about it and was aware of it all the time. A minister for Europe in the Tory government in 1960 had been given this information.

As Heath knew it would it did happen during the last 40 years. Therefore Mr Heath was irresponsible to take the country into the EEC especially without telling the public the truth. Despite of Heath’s blatant lie it now shows the affect. Britain’s independent and sovereignty had been taken away slice after slice. The laws are now dictated by Brussels and British companies are swamped by EU rules.

EU controls already the borders and Britain has hardly any say in it. This resulted into the population and benefits increasing. To some extent it also has an impact on the economy.

Today the EU has already its own flag, anthem, currency, parliament, president, courts and diplomatic service.

At one time the European integration was glorified by the EU and will give the Continent more power which could grow into a superpower like the US or Far Eat or even better.  Today it looks like the opposite. Brussels bureaucracy brought the European countries into great debts and the euro zone became a symbol for disaster.

In spite of it all the Eurocrats demand further integration. High unemployment and spiral meltdown will not be considered as long as there will be a unity of Europe at the end.

The President of the European Community, who used to be a Maoist in Portugal, stated that Europe “needs to develop a fully-equipped community economic government because we cannot continue trying to solve European problems with national solutions,”

All this is nothing but controversial to the Tory’s belief and especially David Cameron that Britain can remain in the EU and at the same time bring back power from Brussels. This belief is nothing but a fantasy or yet another attempted brain washes the public. Already Herman Van Rompuy, President of the EU Council of Minister declared that Britain cannot cherry pick its power to look after its own interest. This clearly gives the message to either integrate into the federal state or keep its independence. At least Mr Van Rompuy is host about it.

Jaques Delors, a French socialist, also pointed out to Britain to either integrate or seek a free trade agreement. A free trade agreement would be certainly the correct way forward. It would not only save the sky-high contribution to the EU but controls the borders, have the law back again and really govern Britain.

The great threat being put out that Britain would not survive on its own comes most properly from people who benefit highly from Brussels. They forgot that Britain was once a great nation built an Empire, great industries and were always a trading nation and on its own.

It would be high time that national pride be established again by getting out of the EU. That goes not only for Britain but all the other EU countries.

LAST MAN OF THE 1936 JARROW MARCH DIED - RIP

Con Shiels died and was the last man of the Jarrow March -- may he RIP. He was 96 years old.

This wonderful 1936 protest against unemployment must go down in British history and never be forgotten.  Con Shiels was 20 years when he joined the men at the last stage of the march, including his father, Con Senior.  200 very weary men walked 300 miles for work from the depressed Tyneside town of Jarrow to the capitol.

Before the death of Con Shiels there was Cornelius Whalen who done the full length of the march of 300 miles. He died a decade ago.

The Jarrow Crusade which was the real name was unfortunately not met for which they had hoped for. Tory, it would be, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had not even the decency to meet them. These proud men covered 300-miles with great dignity and hardship right through England to ask for jobs and not charity.

The Labour MP “Red Ellen” Wilkinson joined the march and went all the way through her constituents.  She admitted that it was a disappointment in her history of Jarrow book titled “The Town That Was Murdered.”  It shows again the attitude of the Tory to tread proud men like that after such an incredible sacrifice they made. They just ignored them.

It is amazing Hitler’s bombs and investment to re-arm Britain for the Second World War saved Jarrow and not the characterless Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin nor the fat cats of shipbuilders and steel works owners. All of them callously sacked the breadwinners and couldn’t care less about families starving to death.

Although there were many other marches during the 1930s but the Jarrow Crusade somehow stands out.

Maybe because it was a march of 300 miles but nevertheless none of them should be forgotten.  They were just ordinary people who stood up for their rights demanded nothing more than just jobs. Right through history there were demonstration for voting, jobs, decent income, home, to join a trade union, free speech and fair trial. This is the real history of Britain not to bow down and to be trampled on.  Now again the Education Secretary Michael Gove only re-introduce history of glorious battles.

The battles by women for equal rights; to be a unionist which fights for a decent wage for a decent day work,  fought by ordinary people against the ruling class who only sees and thinks for themselves is always push aside in the hope that it will be forgotten eventually.

All along British History which wasn’t always fairly written because again, the ruling class wrote it there were Martyrs, Suffragettes and Luddites. Luddites were labelled as backward when they smashed the machines of mill owners who were only after the profits. Nowadays we can see under what horrendous situations these people had to work.

In 1926 the General Strike was only forced upon people because they just couldn’t take it any more.  But again they were defeated by the government bringing in Irish workers and the men had to swallow the bitter, bitter bill and start to work for devastating cut wage.  This actually developed into the Jarrow Crusade.

In the Manchester   Museum where people’ real history is preserved.  The museum has a collection of banners with great art works showing the rise of organised labour.  It is more than worthwhile to visit with many paintings giving evidence of hardship, fight and endurance beyond belief.

Amongst the artefacts are Harold Wilson’s pipe and his “donkey jacket”.

This year, 2013, is the 125^th anniversary of the match girls' strike working at Bryant & May. Very young girls were working 14 hours a day and their jaws became rotten from the phosphor used in matches. All that for a very low pay while the owners lived in all the splendour you can imagine.  One day they had enough and down the matchboxes went.  The Unite union organising a play in the memory of the dispute which will re-tell their story.

Today we had the bankster who created the financial collapse and escaped punishment yet they put countless families into untold hardship. 280 food banks had to be establish to avoid a widespread famine.  This is an incredible situation to happen in Britain and again the ruling classes couldn’t care less.

Experts even have the audacity to forecast a rise of unemployment in the next two years. There seem to be a repetition of 1936 and the Jarrow march brings it back to reality. Will the people take a leaf out of their book even so they noble intention failed?

Today people’s attitude changed so far because of their soft life. What will they do if or when the situation gets worse?  So far, even while Cameron’s austerity is biting more and more the people still treading the mills to keep above water but with promise of rising food prices and all the benefit cuts which come into affect in April will the people able to cope with further hardship?